Saturday night I was able to see the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Tour in E. Rutherford, NJ. Hell I missed Albany and Boston so I had to do something. When my friends Matt and Armando who live in NYC let me know that they had an extra ticket, I was on my way! After all, they are as obsessed as I am about SYTYCD and their love for these kids knows little boundaries — perfect tour going partners, that and there was always the chance that they’d molest Neil so I didn’t have to make an ass out of myself.
So I’m in NYC eating at Kate’s Joint when I get a voicemail. When we leave I check my message and who is it? Oh, it’s a Neil Haskell sibling wanting me to call her back. So, I punched holes in my iPhone trying to dial Erin Haskell back as fast as I could to find out that Neil is hooking me up with backstage passes.
*record scratches*
Does everyone know that I wrote about attacking her brother all summer long? Granted, she knows its all tv blog crushing but whatevs, a little funny. So yeah, I currently heart The Haskell Family more than my own. Fact.
So, after telling Matt and Armando and resuscitating them we were gearing up for the show. Look out Jersey tweens, the bitches are on their way.
Problem #1: We get there and they tell us no camera. I point out that the website for the stadium says the cameras are allowed. They try to pull some crap about at the last minute, production said they didn’t want cameras. Pants on fire much? So we went back to the parking garage, put the camera’s in our crotches and walked back through.
All I could think was, here Lacey hold my camera and then her finding a pubic hair stuck on the lens or something. It was in my crotch afterall. I’m just sayin’…
Problem #2: Go to pick up our backstage passes and realize that as much as I think Neil Haskell is my new BFF, he’s so not. He misspells my last name. Who cares right? Call me Sally Sunshine if needed. I was ready to start saying I was Benji Schwimmer. Any. Means. Necessary.
We get our passes and head on up to our seats. After some borishly lame videos of the dancers telling us random Tour facts and acting quite poorly (I love you kids more than my parents but WOW), the show began.
Executive Producer and Judge Nigel Lythgoe intros the 5 worse auditions from Season 3, we laugh but really it’s just being polite because 5 is a manageable number. 6 and I would have been slapping little children.
Then the lights dimmed, Cat Deeley into’d the kids and the show began! Like I said in my pre-teaser yesterday, I didn’t take notes this year because I just wanted to sit back and enjoy the show. I wanted to take in all the choreography, study the dancers, and obviously be a catty little school girl.
There were a couple new routines just for the Tour, there were the usual favorites, there were solos by each of the Top 10 dancers, there were some dancer introductions, and there was plenty of screaming!
My favorite routine to watch live this year had to be ‘Hip Hip Chin Chin’ with Lacey and Danny. It was good on the show, but there was something about seeing Lacey work that sexual magic on stage that just made my sizzle. I know I’m gay as the day is long but sweet jesus…
I also loved the Imogen Heap number “The Moment I Said It” with Danny Tidwell half naked leading the rest of the cast. It was one of my favorites from the season and it did not disappoint or lose any of its impact in a large stadium. The number is sick! Here’s one of the two videos I took from E. Rutherford.
Watch Danny Tidwell and Cast Dance Imogen Heap’s “The Moment I Said It” Routine
While it was great seeing the actual tour of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE 2007, it was even better getting to hang afterward and meet the gang. No, I wasn’t by the buses this year (though seriously nothing wrong with that) so I didn’t have to beat down any tweens… instead I was backstage with the dancers post-show, pre-bus.
And then there’s the picture that deserves it’s own page… (more…)
Remember a couple weeks back when I was pretty positive I was not going to be able to catch the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Tour? Remember I went through the 5 steps of grief? Anger, sadness, shopping, random acts of douchery, and pushing a old man down a flight of stairs? That’s them, right?
Well my grieving days are behind me and so were plenty of people backstage when I was trying to become BFF’s with the dancers. Yeah, you read that right. From nothing Ducky has risen and bathed in the embarrassment of riches courtesy of The Haskell Clan.
“Shut the front door!” Yup, a Haskell family member heard the cry of a weeping Ducky and hooked a brother up! Big thanks to Erin and Neil Haskell for scoring me passes and for enabling my SYTYCD obsession, enablers…
Quickly, the venue was great; the kids were frakkin fantastic, the routines ridiculous, and the show seemed much longer than last year and I could totally be making that up… still in a SYTYCD haze. It seemed like they danced a thousand and one dances before the intermission, and let me tell you… the 3 straight guys there with their girlfriends or wives hoped it was over if for no reason other than the constant commentary, laughter, and little girl screams emanating from around them. And that was just Matt, Armando and myself!
I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t take notes or anything because I just wanted to sit back and have a blast. I have some pictures and some videos that I’ll post when I return home. At the moment I’m still in NYC but I had to quick post letting you guys know that the show was amazing.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE had their Tour premiere in Albany, NY this past Friday night and are you ready for this… I thought I was going to be there. I was traveling from Boston to Liverpool for my Cousin’s wedding which was Saturday and I was planning on stopping on the way for the tour as I pass right through Albany. Guess who got stuck in ridonkulous traffic and didn’t get to Albany until almost 9:45pm? That’s right… ME! I was not pleased but I am pleased to give you a quick report from a Ducky reader, KRISTY! Take it away girl…
Albany Tour Report:
The kick off for the So You Think You Can Dance Tour was nothing short of wonderful. The energy given off from the dancers could be felt through the entire arena. The top 10 performed many of the favorite routines including: Lacey and Kameron’s Mia Michaels routine, Sabra and Dominic’s Mandy Moore Contemporary and Shane Spark’s Hip Hop, Lacey and Danny performing the Samba and the Viennese Waltz, Neil and Sara’s Disco routine, to name a few. One of the most memorable performances of the night was Neil and Lacey performing the always touching Mia Michaels tribute to her father. To begin the dance, all of the dancers came on stage with handfuls of flowers, which they proceeded to lay on the floor together. The dance was wonderful, and the crowd was especially touched by the picture of Mia and her father Joe, shown at the end of the performance. There weren’t many dry eyes in the house!
I personally enjoyed the Lion King group routine that was choreographed by Tyce D’iorio. Watching it on TV you do not really get to see the entire dance, since the cameras flip to different angles. Watching it live however, the movements all combine, and I was just mesmerized by how beautiful the choreography is.
At the end of the show the dancers took the stage, and thanked the crowd endlessly. I have to say that every dancer was truly grateful to be there, and you could feel just how happy they were. It was if they didn’t want to leave the stage!
After the show my sister and I decided to hang outside by the tour buses in hopes of obtaining a photo with Neil (we were not the only one). I have to say that every one of the dancers took the time to meet the fans, sign autographs, take pictures, etc. I can not begin to tell you how nice and personable each one is, and how they could not stop thanking all of us for being there and supporting them. I was pleasantly surprised to see just how genuine all of the dancers were.
Overall, I had an amazing time and I can’t wait for next year!
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Video Death Match
Week 2 Results
The results are in and after this week’s record voting America (almost 10,000), the three routines going home are:
Jaimie and Hok’s Hummingbird/Flower routine (really folks?), Pasha and Lauren’s Transformers routine (not sad to see Lauren leave), and… sadly IMOGENE HEAP’s Opening Number featuring Danny Tidwell half naked with a big duct-tape X on his chest.
That’s a lot to take in. Each week it’s just going to get harder and if you people start cutting my boy Neil, there’s going to be some serious ramifications. That’s all I’m saying!
Let’s have one last look at the three routines your votes could have saved.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 3 Winner is…
SABRA JOHNSON!
Let’s rewind though shall we?
Before I get to writing this up I have to tell you all some shockingly bad news. I lost 45 minutes of the show tonight. Something happened with our power and from 8:33 to about 9:15 I missed SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! A part of my soul is missing as well. Anyone who wants to fill me in step by step can in the comments section, help a brother out!
The show starts and Cat Deeley looks like a glorious Grecian Ostrich with her hair pulled back with the crown braid and that crazy poof of ruffles! She loves poof and she loves animal prints, so an Ostrich is actually semi-fitting for our beloved host.
The Top 20 are introduced in the order they were eliminated and the stage looks so insane with all of them there again! Everyone is in white and I’m having horrid nightmares of Idol’s All-White Angelic Charity Event Night(mare). I loved seeing everyone again because as the weeks go on and more happens, I actually tend to forget a face or two. Jessi looks really good, guess that heart of her’s is still holding out. Dominic and Sara got a huge response when they were shown and Pasha gave Lauren a version of the butt-bongos.
Then it was time for our Top 4 and it was glorious to see them up there, the envy of 16 others! Lacey Schwimmer, Neil Haskell, Sabra Johnson, and Danny Tidwell. This game is ON.
So You Think You Can Dance introduced us to the Top 10 this week and there was some hardcore dancing, some hardcore personalities, some hardcore dissing, and some hardcore overdoing of John Mayer.
Quickly because I leave for the airport in 6 hours and have to sleep at some point… I love having Mia back as a Judge! An Emmy nominated Judge at that! I was psyched to see Wade get his shot at choreographing this new twist in the show. All of the solo’s will be the exact same routine which gives us a chance to critique each dancers take on the choreography. I was psyched to see me some Neil in some tight polyester and I was psyched to just have the show on!
Lacey is one hot sexy ass lady. Her Mormon relatives must flip their lids to see her sex it up as she does. WOW can the girl command a stage. Working it out from front to back, there was nothing wrong with her performance. Flawless. Danny’s as well. She ate him alive, but the boy can move.
Neil and Sara were electric, energetic, and quite the disco duo! Those pants did not disappoint, I love Neil even more now! Hot Tamales!
Sabra and Kameron were good I thought. She was absolutely stunning to watch and he was better than he has been for weeks. I get that he’s still lacking something but you’ve got to hand it to the kid for trying! I still miss Sabra and Dominic together though, don’t you?
Dominic and Jaimie’s Viennese Waltz was soooo not what I expected. It was not the Viennese Waltz we’ve come to know and love. She is always stunning with her lines and all but this was hands down Dom’s worst week. Like Mia said, 1 bad week… not too shabby!
Lauren and Pasha were really good tonight, I hate to admit it. The whole transformers opening and close were incredible to watch and sooooo perfectly in sync. I still don’t like her though. She annoys me.
Remember how I said I was excited for Wade’s choreography? Yeah, it wasn’t his best and to then see it 10 times was a little, how do I say this… TOO FRAKKIN’ MUCH! If I had to hear John Mayer say he was waiting for that world to change one more time, I was going to turn on every light in the house, run every air conditioner and start dumping oil into the Boston Harbor. That world needed to END!
In theory it was a good try. I did like watching how each one was different. Of the girls, I thought Sara, Sabra, and Lacey were the best. Of the boys, Neil, Pasha, and Danny.
So who goes home and who stays? Ideally I want Lauren gone. I worry about Jaimie because her solo was weak and then getting stuck with Dom was not good for her this week. Over on the guys side, it’s gotta be Kameron right? Poor Kam Kam!
Oh and how funny that once again Cousin Heidi got NO LOVE AT ALL? Dmitry’s up there shaking his thang and there’s poor Cousin Heidi screaming LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, I’M ON TV AGAIN! Tragic.
Raise your hand if you wanted to KNOCK ON NEIL’S WOOD?
Ducky reader MELLIEMEL (hiding her real name for gangsta purposes I presume) was lucky enough to attend the taping of last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 10 performances. As she promised last week, she’s bringing us all the scoop from inside the house!
MellieMel will spoil you, she’ll treat us, and she’ll make you laugh when we go ON SET WITH MELLIEMEL! (more…)
Wow, we’re into the Top 10 America! So You Think You Can Dance is heating up and its time for the pairings to get a little remix and its time for the dancers to show us what they have when they perform solos each week.
If you want to know the couplings and routines for this coming Wednesday night’s performance, they are revealed after the jump. (more…)
Wow, we’re into the Top 10 America! So You Think You Can Dance is heating up and its time for the pairings to get a little remix and its time for the dancers to show us what they have when they perform solos each week.
If you want to know the couplings and routines for this coming Wednesday night’s performance, they are revealed after the jump. (more…)
So You Think You Can Dance Announce The Top 10 Dancers!
Wow, tonight’s show was extremely hard to watch. I was a nervous mess from 9:40 on and as I type this I’m still a little jittery.
Here were the Bottom 3 Couples this week: Danny Voldemort and Anya Garnis
Hok Konishi and Jaimie Goodwin
My BF Neil Haskell and Lauren Gottlieb
I was off by one couple but I did pretty well in my predictions based on the Top 12 Performances. I was sad to see the amazing Hok Konishi go, as well as Anya Garnis.
While the show has ended, I can’t help but wonder how the hell someone in particular is still in this competition. I’m sure you’re expecting me to say Voldemort, but that’s not it. It’s that shrew Lauren Gottlieb. While her solo tonight was pretty good, it stank of desperation (not Jaimie’s solo, thank you Nigel) and was a little too frantic and nervous for my liking.
Granted, I don’t love the girl and I guess I understand her staying and being more versatile than Anya but damn it hurt to see Anya go before Lauren. Did anyone else notice that she made way too much eye contact with the camera during the opening Jive number? She works a nerve.
There were moments of elation and hope when Voldemort was announced to be in the Bottom 3 but deep down I knew it was a crap vote to have him there. Based on this week’s performance, there was no way in hell he deserved to go but I still kind of wanted to see it happen.
I’m just 100% happy that I can breathe again knowing the My BF Neil Haskell has made it to the Top 10 SYTYCD Tour and that I’ll be able to molestattack meet him this fall. The boys damn cute and he’s fun and dorky and seriously that body is OOC! I heart him, as you know.
*If you love SYTYCD, check out our latest TV Podcast where we talk heavily about our favorite dancers, and our love of all things SYTYCD. Granted, it was recorded last week but it’s still fun.
I’m tired. Must sleep… or watch the premiere of MAD MEN.
I keep trying to write a recap but something keeps stopping me. I feel like Harry trying to throw hexes at the Half Blood Prince after Dumbledore bits it. I just can’t write because something is wrong in the world.
Danny Tidwell is like Voldemort. He’s “He Who Must Not Be Named” and it pains me with every bit of my being to say that…
No I can’t…
Adava Kedavra!
Damnit, didn’t work. I still want to say that I absoloved Danny and Anya’s Fox-Trot last night. There, I said. ARE YOU ALL HAPPY NOW? Kittens just died because I said that! Does that make you all happy?
I CURSE YOU JEAN MARC JENERAUX for creating such a wonderful vehicle that showcased his unreal talents. How dare you.
His leaps, his grace, his extension, his brilliance during that piece makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It makes my lightning bolt scar hurt. Seriously, the most beautiful and down right amazing routine of the night.
It was a real showcase for Tom Riddle and Anya Garnis as it highlighted the strenghts of each. Some wonderful partnering skills from Voldemort (finally) which really allowed Anya to just get out there and float as if her feet were on a Nimbus 2000.
Seriously, there’s going to be a Dark Mark above my house after writing this post.
Alright, its Monday night and that means SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE has just finished taping its Top 12 finalists episode and as usual here are the dances each couple had to learn.
Wait, before the couples… WADE ROBSON is this weeks guest judge. Gotta love that! In part because I love me some Wade as a judge and choreographer and in part because that means my prediction last week didn’t come true. The producers did not give Danny and Anya a Wade routine to ensure their survival into the Top 10.
***BIG HUGE NEWS!!!TRAVIS WALL is on this weeks show!!!
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